Barb-holding device



(No Model) T.W..EAT0N.

Barb Holding 'De-vice.

Patented Feb. 8,1881.

N PERS. PHOTDLLITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT fOFFICE.

` THOMAS W. EATON, `OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BARB-HOLDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,375, dated February8, 1881.

Application tiled August 30, 1880. (No model.)

it being of necessity that some device be employed that is new and novelthat will allow the said metal barbs to be deposited by the punch, orother machine forming them, in an even uniform way, so that they may besafely transferred therefrom. to the twisting mechanism in such :manneras to be readily handled Without snarlin g, and placed with facilitytherein. rlhe objects are fully attained by the mechanical deviceillustrated in the drawings, and hereinafter more fully shown anddescribed.

Having thus defined the necessity of Vmy invention to the manufacture ofcontinuous metalbarb fencing, I will proceed to describe the device.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view,

and Fig. 2 is a section, ofthe longitudinal strips A, illustrating howthe metallic strip C is kept in position vertically and how the barb iscaught in position thereon.

Similar letters of reference are used in both views to indicate similarparts.

The longitudinal wooden strips A, Fig. l, are slotted their entirelength, as shown at C', that they may receive the metallic strips C, andthus hold them firmly in a vertical position. The wooden strips A,together with their metallic adjuncts C, are formed into a frame byconnecting them to the transverse wooden strips, to which they arefirmly attached by screws or bolts, as shown at b, Fig. l. Into theinner faces of the transverse strips, and at their lower edges, are cutthe transverse slots, as shown at C C, and in the dotted lines at CW',the object being to bind the metallic strips C firmly in their position.

The longitudinal strips Aare set equidistant, and at such distance fromeach other as to allow the angles of the continuous metal barbs D todrop thereon and retain their equilibrium, the upper edges of the metalstrips C being sharply beveled, as shown in Fig. 2, to facilitate thisdesired result. The frame as a whole is set at a sharp angle as regardsits length, the metal barbs D dropping from the punch or other machineof manufacture upon the upper end of said frame sliding down one againstanother until the frame is filled, when it is replaced by another one,and so on ad I do not confine myself to the material used in theconstruction of this holder, or to the described points of jointure ofthe longitudinal and transverse strips, as they may be mortised andtenoned or halved together; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

For use jointly with a machine for punching fence-barb strips of sheetmetal, the frame herein described for receiving such strips as they fallfrom the forming-machine in an even and uniform manner, substantially asdescribed.

THOMAS W. EATON.

Witnesses:

F. M. CoMsroeK, D. S. BALDWIN.

